Digital Production Specialist

Title: Digital Production Specialist (Temporary) - Alfred Music

Location: Louisville, CO, US

Job Description:

This is a temporary, hourly paid position where you will be expected to work 40 hours per week. The anticipated duration of the role is approximately 5 months.

Company Information

Join Alfred Music and Help Inspire the Next Generation of Musicians.

At Alfred Music, we believe that music is for everyone. As the world’s leading educational music publisher, we’ve been helping musicians learn, grow, and express themselves for over 100 years. Our extensive catalog of high-quality sheet music, method books, and instructional resources serves educators, students, and performers across all levels and genres—from the first piano lesson to professional concert halls.

We are dedicated to supporting music education and making it accessible to all. Our products are used in classrooms, studios, and homes around the world, empowering teachers and inspiring students to develop their musical voices. Whether it's our popular method series like Alfred’s Basic Piano Library or innovative performance pieces, our goal is to nurture a lifelong love of music in every learner.

If you're passionate about music education and want to make a meaningful impact on the lives of teachers and students around the world, Alfred Music offers the opportunity to combine purpose with creativity. Come help us write the next chapter in music learning.

General Summary

As a Digital Production Specialist primarily supporting the Alfred Music brand, you are the technical specialist responsible for preparing and managing product assets for both print and digital distribution. Your core responsibility is to support the Production team by guiding products through the reprint and lifecycle management process to maintain inventory levels and ensure market availability. This involves leveraging advanced design software and established archival techniques to convert legacy files or raw scans into current, compliant, print-ready, and digital-ready formats, while rigorously adhering to internal and vendor quality standards. This role is crucial for enabling the company’s sales, marketing, and distribution efforts across all platforms.

You are a proactive problem-solver and a collaborative member of the team, working closely with Editorial, Marketing, and Purchasing. This role reports directly to the Director, Digital Production.

Core Functions: 

• Manage the end-to-end reprint workflow for a large catalog of published products, prioritizing jobs based on inventory needs and sales history to ensure continuous product availability.
• Prepare and deliver files according to the specific technical requirements of multiple external vendors and output types (e.g., offset, digital, print-on-demand) to guarantee high-quality physical production.
• Execute all necessary pre-press adjustments—such as color conversion, bleed/trim management, font handling, and layer clean-up—following a detailed quality control checklist to achieve final print-readiness.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams for final proof review and sign-off, confirming file integrity and compliance before mass production begins.
• Generate and process various high-resolution digital product assets required for online distribution channels, e-commerce platforms, and marketing initiatives.
• Maintain and process digital products for online consumption, ensuring that all data and assets are properly configured within the inventory and fulfillment systems.
• Produce specialized assets, such as web-preview images for video and website product views, applying necessary watermarks, resizing, and reformatting according to platform specifications.
• Manage the creation of Search Inside the Book (SITB) content files for key online retailers (e.g., Amazon, Google Books).
• Help manage and maintain the company's extensive digital archive, including the retrieval, manipulation, and updating of product files.
• Troubleshoot and recover legacy or lost files using a variety of internal and external resources, coordinating with historical printers and technical archives to complete product file sets.
• Utilize and maintain product data across various internal systems (e.g., inventory, fulfillment, and product databases) to ensure data integrity aligns with all production and digital distribution efforts.

Requirements

Required Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of professional experience in a print production, graphic design, or pre-press environment.
• Moderate proficiency using Adobe Creative Cloud applications, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat/Distiller (specifically for Pre-Press and File Inspection).
• Basic knowledge of digital image editing, including preparing files for print (CMYK, spot colors), color correction, and manipulation of both vector and raster graphics.
• Basic understanding of pre-press procedures, printer specifications, and quality assurance best practices.
• Familiarity with standard operating systems and hardware platforms (PC and Mac OS).
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple complex projects under tight deadlines and collaborate effectively within a team.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Music training and/or general knowledge of musical concepts and the ability to copy-edit music and text
• Strong written and verbal communication skills  
• Great attention to detail with strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities; work well under pressure with a positive attitude
• Must be able to collaborate, receive direction, and follow specific guidelines; Experience using FileMaker, AS400, Suitcase Fusion, ASANA, Slack, and/or FTP clients

The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits

Compensation:

We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The hourly compensation range for this role in Colorado is $18.58 - $30.96. We typically hire at the lower to mid-point of the range, with the top end reserved for internal growth and exceptional performance. Actual pay depends on factors like experience, technical depth, geographic location, and alignment with internal peers.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment that is well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned with adequate ventilation and a noise level that is usually moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

All employees must comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to your manager and/or Human Resources.

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Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and move about the facility; use hands to handle, or feel; talk by expressing ideas by means of the spoken word; and hear by perceiving the nature of sounds. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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